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1949-06-27 Life Magazine Contents

1949/06/27 — Cover photograph featuring “Inland Sailing” with Arlin Gruenwald is credited to George Silk.

Contents of this issue are as follows:
THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • New Harvest Adds to Big Wheat Surplus
  • Editorial: The Year of the Yammer
  • George VI Gets A Mouthful of Chin Strap
  • Truman’s Patronage Boss Goes to Work – Big Bill Boyle
  • Sears. Roebuck Rolls Into Rio
  • LIFE Offers Congratulations
  • “Silly Honey” Shoots a Ballplayer — Ruth Ann “Burns” Steinhagen shoots baseball player Eddie Waitkus
  • Dauntless Dale Wages Total War
  • Jump Takes Horse
  • Georgia Clark Becomes U.S. Treasurer
  • Hoover Received His 74th Honorary Degree

    • ARTICLE:

  • A Round Table on the Movies by Eric Hodgins

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS:

  • Inland Sailing — Photographs for LIFE by Charles Steinheimer
  • Atom City

    • RELIGION:

  • The Arm of St. Francis Xavier

    • FASHION:

  • Nylon, 1949

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Speaking of Pictures: “The Kiss” by Rodin
  • Letters to the Editors
  • LIFE Visits Palumbo’s

    • Notable advertising includes: 2-page color ad for Jantzen Sunclothes and Swim Suits, 2-page ad for 7-Up, half-page ad for Schenley’s Cream of Kentucky Whiskey illustrated by Norman Rockwell*, and a Coca-Cola ad on back cover. NOTE: An * denotes ad is smaller than a full-page.